Onion Grading Brings Merchants’ Complaint
[Per Press Association. Copyright.'] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A letter received by a firm of grain and produce merchants from another firm of merchants in Sydney, in reference to the marketing of onions, over which dissatisfaction has arisen, states: “We won’t be humbugged by New Zealand any more.” The cause of the dissatisfaction is the grading of export onions by Government graders.
Christchurch merchants said yesterday that the standard of grading was so high that the number of rejections was making it very difficult to quote for Australia.
Rejected lines had to be disposed of on the local market, and the merchants then had to acquire fresh lines to be submitted for shipment. When the complaints were submitted to Mr R. McGillivray, field superintendent of the Department of Agriculture, he said that the onions were being rejected because of disease. The merchants’ reply to this was that some might bo rejected because of disease, but the complaint was that the general standard of grading was too high. Australian merchants had never complained about the quality of Now Zealand onions in this or any other season, and the present crop was the best for years.
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Northern Advocate, 22 April 1939, Page 9
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